#200 - Folie à deux cents

Is this the end, beautiful friend? Karri and Henrik swim down memory lane, going through all their most memorable moments from the podcast over 7 years and 200 episodes. Time to pop the champagne! Over the years, the duo has made observations about the natural evolution of the show. In its humble beginnings, the episodes followed a strict scene-by-scene analysis and near-obsessive levels of breakdown - from the tiniest technical details such as Michael Myers' gait in Halloween 4 (1988), to theories about space-travel times and synodic planetary alignments in A Trip to Mars (1918), or the merciless tear-down of Cubby Broccoli's science facts in Moonraker (1979). While contextual analysis has always played a noticeable role in The Flick Lab, the episodes have increasingly detached themselves from technically intimate film analysis and shifted toward cultural, thematic, and socio-political readings. With this in mind, what does it all mean regarding the future of the podcast? Karri has spent extraordinary amounts of time trying to find the answer. Now, the answer has arrived. The pair also touch on topics such as obscure films, episode length, radio vs. podcasting, ignoring the audience to remain truthful to yourself, why the podcast is still here, mad and unhealthy podcast enthusiasm, reading vs. internet addiction, cynicism in cinema, and what was gained vs. what was given. Films / episodes mentioned or referenced in this episode: Andalusian Dog Apocalypse Now The Bear (TV) The Big Lebowski The Bridge Bunny the Killer Thing Call Me By Your Name The Chaser Come and See Coriolanus Corpus Christi Days Die Another Day Dirty Harry Drive My Car Elephant Sitting Still Going South Halloween Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers The Hellraiser Franchise Hong-kil dong Horses of God In the Name Of... Judge Dredd Jurassic Park Jurassic World Dominion Jurassic World Rebirth Like Someone In Love The Living Daylights Mahjong The Martian No Man's Land Nobody Knows Outer Space Parasite Pocahontas Possession Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Satantango Sprinkler Sprinkled Stray Dogs Suicide Room Sugar Cane Alley Summer at Grandpa's Suspiria (2018) Titanic Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Uninvited Warsaw '44 The Wailing White Hunter, Black Heart The Yellow Sea People mentioned or referenced in this episode: Tapani Maskula Kalle Kinnunen Winston Churchill Tsai Ming-liang Previous guests or co-hosts re-appearing, pre-recorded: Zachary Byrd (previous co-host) Nick Vaky from Mint Volcano (Taiwanese New Cinema / Interview) Luke Liu from Mint Volcano (Taiwanese New Cinema / Interview) Nezar Andary (The Cinema of Mohammad Malas) Yana (Six Degrees of Celebration) Anas (Horses of God) Annie (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) Pedro from Plan-Séquence Hosted and edited by Karri Ojala and Henrik Telkki. The Flick Lab theme tune performed by Nick Grivell. Podcast feed image by raul olave from Pixabay.